[cmath] ICIAM 2011 Satellite Meeting

[Abba Gumel]

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings from the "Satellite and Embedded Meetings Committee" for the  
upcoming International Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics  
(http://www.iciam2011.com/) happening in Vancouver, Canada (June  
18-22, 2011). Like the ICM, this is a large, exciting, and  
international congress that happens every four years.

We are seeking proposals for affiliated meetings (see below for  
further detail). Such meetings can be beneficial for all concerned  
because a participant can attend more than one meeting for less than  
double the travel cost. This results in higher participation levels  
for both ICIAM and for the affiliated meetings.

If you have questions, please contact one of us.

Sincerely,
Jim Crowley, SIAM, crowley at siam.org
Abba Gumel, University of Manitoba, gumelab at cc.umanitoba.ca
Randy LeVeque, University of Washington, rjl at washington.edu
Mary Pugh, University of Toronto, mpugh at math.utoronto.ca

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A *satellite* meeting is a meeting that takes place within a few weeks  
of ICIAM 2011 on a topic of interest to ICIAM attendees in a location  
that may make it convenient for ICIAM participants to combine the  
events into a single trip.

Satellite meetings have no official connection to ICIAM beyond a cross  
listing on the ICIAM 2011 webpages. ICIAM does not provide any  
financial or other support for satellite meetings. Satellite meetings  
are organized and run by independent organizations or groups. For  
example, around the time of the ICIAM 2007 Conference in Zurich, there  
were more than two dozen satellite meetings, listed at  
http://www.iciam07.ch/satellite_conferences

An *embedded* meeting is a meeting of some other organization that  
takes place during the week of the ICIAM Conference and that may share  
some resources with the main ICIAM Conference. For example, during the  
ICIAM
2007 Conference in Zurich, there were four embedded meetings listed at  
http://www.iciam07.ch/embedded_meetings

For ICIAM 2011, we expect few if any embedded meetings.

As a service to the community, the ICIAM Steering Committee has  
appointed a Satellite and Embedded Meetings Committee with the  
following goals: to encourage groups to consider organizing satellite  
meetings; to consider other meetings and approve listing them on the  
ICIAM webpages as satellite meetings of ICIAM; to create and maintain  
a webpage of these meetings, as a resource for participants and for  
those organizing other meetings; and to consider any requests for  
embedded meetings.

If you are organizing or considering organizing a meeting that would  
qualify as a satellite meeting, please contact Mary Pugh  
(mpugh at math.utoronto.ca) as soon as possible with the following  
information:

Name of meeting
Estimated number of participants
Location
Dates
Conference webpage (if available)
Other relevant information, such as scope or content of meeting,  
organizing society or affiliate, etc

Feel free to contact us with tentative information for meetings that  
are not fully planned. This information may be useful to others  
planning related meetings.

If you're interested in organizing an embedded meeting, please contact  
Randy LeVeque (rjl at washington.edu)







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Abba Gumel
Professor, Department of Mathematics,
Director, Inst. of Industrial Mathematical Sciences,        Tel: 204-4747486
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2,        Fax: 204-4747602
CANADA.
Website: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~gumelab
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